.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 253 114
Rank change year-on-year -62 -139 +28
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 361 533 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.22% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 5.48% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 330 388 1,668
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,697 9,726 15,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.01% 22.33% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,139 6,006 12,937
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -9.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,209 £61,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +7.66% -8.89%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -56 107 £55,000 - 49
London +5 97 £80,000 +10.34% 57
North West -20 66 £55,000 - 33
South East -45 51 £60,000 +11.11% 57
Midlands -17 48 £65,000 +23.81% 23
East Midlands -12 37 £65,000 +23.81% 13
South West -13 36 £55,000 -22.81% 21
Yorkshire -49 23 £40,000 -20.00% 11
North East -17 18 £55,000 +22.22% 6
East of England -5 16 £73,750 +47.50% 23
West Midlands -13 11 £45,000 -14.29% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.66%) IIS
2 2 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Kentico
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 214 (59.28%) Azure
2 83 (22.99%) AWS
3 56 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (12.74%) Serverless
5 36 (9.97%) SaaS
6 29 (8.03%) GitHub
7 21 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 19 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 18 (4.99%) Azure AKS
10 15 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.16%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (3.88%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.88%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (3.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Internet
2 1 (0.28%) AMQP
2 1 (0.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (39.34%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (8.59%) MongoDB
2 31 (8.59%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (4.16%) Power BI
5 13 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 11 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.05%) MySQL
8 4 (1.11%) Redis
9 3 (0.83%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 51 (14.13%) Git
2 10 (2.77%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.11%) JIRA
6 3 (0.83%) Vite
6 3 (0.83%) webpack
7 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.55%) MSTest
7 2 (0.55%) NUnit
7 2 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.28%) GitLab
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (11.36%) Finance
2 37 (10.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (4.71%) Law
4 13 (3.60%) Games
5 12 (3.32%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.94%) Banking
7 7 (1.94%) Front Office
7 7 (1.94%) Legal
8 3 (0.83%) Advertising
8 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 3 (0.83%) Marketing
8 3 (0.83%) Retail
8 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.55%) Automotive
9 2 (0.55%) Back Office
9 2 (0.55%) Local Government
9 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (69.25%) Developer
2 123 (34.07%) .NET Developer
3 99 (27.42%) Senior
4 82 (22.71%) Software Developer
5 65 (18.01%) C# Developer
6 61 (16.90%) Senior Developer
7 49 (13.57%) Software Engineer
8 48 (13.30%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (12.19%) Lead
10 35 (9.70%) C# .NET Developer
11 27 (7.48%) .NET Software Engineer
12 24 (6.65%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 24 (6.65%) Lead Developer
12 24 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
13 23 (6.37%) Senior Software Developer
14 22 (6.09%) React Developer
14 22 (6.09%) Senior .NET Developer
15 20 (5.54%) Senior C# Developer
16 19 (5.26%) Azure Developer
17 18 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (100.00%) .NET
2 122 (33.80%) ASP.NET
3 101 (27.98%) React
4 82 (22.71%) .NET Framework
5 58 (16.07%) AngularJS
6 57 (15.79%) RESTful
7 49 (13.57%) HTML
8 48 (13.30%) Entity Framework
9 47 (13.02%) CSS
10 46 (12.74%) Blazor
11 39 (10.80%) ASP.NET Core
12 35 (9.70%) ASP.NET MVC
13 31 (8.59%) ASP.NET Web API
13 31 (8.59%) Vue
14 27 (7.48%) Node.js
15 25 (6.93%) REST
16 19 (5.26%) HTML5
17 13 (3.60%) AWS CDK
17 13 (3.60%) CSS3
17 13 (3.60%) Dapper ORM
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 11 (3.05%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.94%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.66%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.66%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.11%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.83%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.55%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.49%) VMS
2 4 (1.11%) Windows
3 3 (0.83%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (35.73%) Agile
1 129 (35.73%) Full-Stack Development
2 105 (29.09%) CI/CD
3 101 (27.98%) Software Engineering
4 90 (24.93%) Microservices
5 85 (23.55%) DevOps
6 65 (18.01%) MVC
7 60 (16.62%) Containerisation
8 51 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 46 (12.74%) SDLC
10 41 (11.36%) Clean Code
11 37 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (8.86%) Scrum
13 30 (8.31%) Mentoring
14 29 (8.03%) Collaborative Culture
14 29 (8.03%) OO
15 27 (7.48%) AI
16 26 (7.20%) Analytics
16 26 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (6.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 308 (85.32%) C#
2 146 (40.44%) SQL
3 110 (30.47%) JavaScript
4 49 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.37%) Python
6 15 (4.16%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.49%) Rust
8 8 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.11%) Bash
9 4 (1.11%) Bicep
10 3 (0.83%) Erlang
10 3 (0.83%) Java
10 3 (0.83%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (8.03%) Degree
2 14 (3.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.05%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.43%) QA
2 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.39%) WCAG
3 2 (0.55%) SLA
4 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.28%) ITGC
System Software
1 83 (22.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (16.62%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.31%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 96 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.39%) Google
3 3 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (0.83%) Facebook
3 3 (0.83%) YouTube
4 2 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (0.55%) Databricks
4 2 (0.55%) Foundry
4 2 (0.55%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.28%) IBM
5 1 (0.28%) Okta
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle
5 1 (0.28%) Salesforce